Mario Macías-Ayala, MA

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Originally from Puebla, Mexico, Mario earned his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, México, his master’s degree in nationalism studies from Central European University in Budapest, and is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is currently a doctoral fellow at the National Council for Humanities, Science, and Technology. Among the scholarships he has received are the Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship and the Mellon-Fronteridades fellowship for border studies between Mexico and the United States.

His work focuses on issues related to the migration phenomenon from the perspective of dispossession and displacement, return migration, cooperativism as a means of subsistence, settler colonialism, and identity rearticulation. He also serves as a research assistant at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona, working on risk assessment projects for minority populations in the city of Tucson.

Education

• PhD candidate, Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson
• MA, Nationalism Studies, Central European University
• BA, Anthropology, Universidad de las Américas